Poker blog round-up: Shamus, Melted Felt, Wicked Chops, Liquid Eyes and Greekstein

Pud's Poker Progress / Matthew Pitt / 03 July 2009 / Leave a Comment

I've been fully immersing myself in the 2009 World Series of Poker these past few weeks, either reading or writing about it or even both. To say I am jealous of everyone out there is an understatement to say the least, I really must get together some sort of bankroll in the next few years and jet off out to Sin City to see what it is really like first hand.

One blogger who is out in Vegas at the moments but I don't think he's got much time to chill out and soak up the atmosphere is Short Stacked Shamus. I've followed Shamus' blog since I first started blogging myself and I have never know him write a poor entry. Everything he writes is brilliantly done and he fully deserves his role as a blogger for the PokerNews Live Reporting team. I particularly liked his recent post documenting his 35th day at the WSOP where he mentions a few crazy hands including Dario Minieri going a bit mental with 83!

Someone not at the WSOP but who has predicted great things for Phil 'Poker Brat' Hellmuth is Mark of Melted Felt. When he first launched the site I wasn't sure ho long it would last or if indeed the standard of content would drop as it is very difficult to write constantly good poker satire but he and his team see to have managed it pretty well so far. Check out this entry to see who will win the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event!

Although I have not done it for a while, I used to love taking photographs. When I bought my first digital camera several years ago I never stopped taking them. I'd take photos of family, friends, pets, scenery, literally anything that would sit still long enough for me to snap it! In my opinion, Wicked Chops is an absolute genius with the camera, all you have to do is check out his snaps of this year's WSOP to notice that and the captions to his pictures just simply crack me up. Great blog in general, if a little non-PC but when did I ever care about that?

Away from the WSOP but still a blogger on their travels is Liquid Eyes, owner of "Grinding From Behind." Mr Liquid Eyes recently went on a trip to Bordeaux for a friend's wedding and his trip report reminded me of when I went to Lanzarote last year with my olds, especially the stalling of the car eight times and the lack of suncream. Rest of the blog is a good read too so be sure to check him out.

Last but not least and a lot closer to home is Greekstein who spent a part of his night out a couple of weeks ago thinking he was on The Bill! After seeing a couple arguing and the bloke looking like he was man-handling the woman, Greekstein ran to the rescue and pretended to be a plain clothes copper! Quality! Obviously Betfair don't condone impersonating police officers but the story is funny, especially when he makes the bloke go stand next to a lamp-ppost whilst he talks to the woman! Hahaha!

Well that is all for now. The Main Event starts today and I really hope a Brit or one of the Betfair pro's goes really deep to show the Yanks we too can play this game!

As always, thanks for reading and best of luck at the tables!